Opinion
4 Things Hong Kong can learn from Taipei
Every time I visit a city, I happen to find a distinction between it and Hong Kong. So when I and my wife paid a visit to Taipei recently, I made a personal vow to follow what I did with my observations in Seoul and Tokyo.
Fear, speculation in Iran over military strikeParisa Hafezi and Hashem Kalantari Reuters 12/10/2011 | No happy ending: the end of Obama's Hollywood romanceGuy Adams The Independent 12/07/2011 |
 The threat of military strikes on Iran has upturned the quiet and comfortable lives once enjoyed by many Iranians, ushering in a new era of struggle and fear. |  He was young, good looking, and photogenic. He swept to power against heavy odds on the back of a heart-warming, hopey-changey message, completing a rags-to-riches journey that might have come straight out of a blockbuster movie. It isn't hard to see why Barack Obama's election in 2008 was the toast of Hollywood. |
Jim O'Neill: China could overtake US economy by 2027 Telegraph 11/22/2011 | Family life in China: is one child enough?Katy Regan Telegraph 10/10/2011 |
 Jim O'Neill, the head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has predicted that China could overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and urged a fundamental rethink of the operation of the G7 which he believes is too dominated by the West. |  What does China’s one-child policy mean to the 1.4 billion people for whom it is simply a fact of life? Katy Regan travelled the country in search of answers |
Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'Mark Hosenball Reuters 10/07/2011 | Jason Beerman: How Hong Kong can avoid becoming Asia's landfillJason Beerman CNNGo.com 10/06/2011 |
 American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. |  If you don’t happen to live downwind from one of Hong Kong’s three gigantic landfills, you might not be aware that Hong Kong faces an acute garbage problem: our landfills will be full within a matter of years. |
Hong Kong's Free-Market Economy Needs More Freedom: The TickerWilliam Pesek Bloomberg.com 09/17/2011 | Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil WarTyler Durden Zero Hedge 09/07/2011 |
 Hong Kong is an economic paradox with few peers.It's routinely ranked the world's best place to do business by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, which publish the annual Index of Economic Freedom. That's because of Hong Kong's free entry of foreign capital, first-world legal system, low taxes and duty-free port. |  Any time a major bank releases a report saying a given course of action is too costly, too prohibitive, too blonde, or simply too impossible, it is nearly guaranteed that that is precisely the course of action about to be undertaken. Which is why all non-euro skeptics are advised to shield their eyes and look away from the just released report by UBS (of surging 3 Month USD Libor rate fame) titled "Euro Break Up - The Consequences." UBS conveniently sets up the straw man as follows: "Under the current structure and with the current membership, the Euro does not work. Either the current structure will have to change, or the current membership will have to change." |
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